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Realtime Worlds have gone into admin. No direct relevance to SAM, but this was the pairing of our very own Colin Macdonald and DMA Designs (who licensed Lemmings to SAM) and would probably not be the company it is (was?) today without our little blue footed friend.

And nice interview with Colin here where he talks a little SAM: http://www.square-go.com/feature/970

Best of luck for the future for all those involved. And thanks to Colin for all the great stuff he did for the SAM community (although I never realised (from the interview) he was involved in the Manic Miner licence - thought that was Dave, Bob and SAMCo?

Megademo: Stupid Pointless Cool You could have spent all that time writing a game! Oooh, interesting, I wonder how they did that? Wow, I never knew my Sam could do that! Meh, that's not as good as Lyra III...

This issue of SAM Revival costs £3.99 for the UK, or £4.79 for EU including Airmail postage. You can also subscribe for six issues at a discounted price of £21.98 (UK) or £26.98 (EU). More information and ordering information can be found on the Quazar website at www.samcoupe.com

SAM Revival is a printed magazine with an accompanying cover disk of software and aims to be packed full of SAM Coupé news, interesting features, articles and interviews, catering for everything SAM related. The first issue launched in August 2002, and the magazine is now read by SAM users in 20 countries.

On the coverdisk you’ll find the fantastic VIC-20 emulator from Simon Owen, a new wireframe 3D demo from Thomas Harte, and a full adventure game from Hydrasoft / Pete King.

Inside the magazine you’ll find seven pages of news from around the SAM world covering all the latest developments and what is on the horizon. The Developer Diary looks at the progress by Adrian Brown of porting a TCP/IP stack to the SAM, Thomas Harte covers the work on his 3D engine and Colin Piggot goes over the improvements to the newest version of B-DOS for the Trinity Ethernet Interface. There’s also source code for the new patched SAM ROM to auto boot from the Trinity.

This issue of SAM Revival costs £3.99 for the UK, or £4.79 for EU including Airmail postage. You can also subscribe for six issues at a discounted price of £21.98 (UK) or £26.98 (EU). More information and ordering information can be found on the Quazar website at www.samcoupe.com

SAM Revival is a printed magazine with an accompanying cover disk of software and aims to be packed full of SAM Coupé news, interesting features, articles and interviews, catering for everything SAM related. The first issue launched in August 2002, and the magazine is now read by SAM users in 20 countries.

SAM Revival issue 22 features the full commercial game ‘Burglar Bob’ on the coverdisk. This was one of Jupiter Software’s last titles produced for the SAM back in the late 1990s. Also on the coverdisk is a wireframe 3D demo from Thomas Harte who is looking to produce a full 3D engine for the SAM Coupe.

Inside the magazine you’ll find all eight pages of news covering all the latest news from around the SAM world, some of the highlights of which include news on the first application that is well underway for use with the Trinity Ethernet Interface. Called SAMonline this application will connect to the internet to get all the latest news for the SAM, as well as offering free software downloadings of new software as well as classic games and old disk magazines. There is also news on the development of the Mayhem Accelerator and also the latest emulator from Simon Owen which allows the SAM to emulate the Commodore VIC-20!

Issue 21 of SAM Revival magazine is now out from Quazar. (Click here for pricing and to order…)

SAM Revival is a printed magazine with an accompanying cover disk of software and aims to be packed full of SAM Coupé news, interesting features, articles and interviews, catering for everything SAM related. The first issue launched in August 2002, and the magazine is now read by SAM users in 17 countries.

Inside the issue you’ll find all the regulars covering all the latest news in the SAM Coupe world. Feature articles include an interview from Frode Tennebø where he interviews David Gommeren and Rob Mies of The Lords. Gavin Smith continues his look back at some of the top SAM games, looking in particular this issue at Arcade Classics.

Colin Piggot looks at using the MMC / SD Card slot on the Trinity Ethernet Interface. The first half of the article looks at accessing the flash cards with routines for detecting, reading and writing raw sectors. The second half goes through the patches made to B-DOS to allow it to use the Trinity for mass storage of files. Rounding the issue off is the Developer Diary where Thomas Harte explains how he is tackling his work on creating a solid 3D engine on the SAM.

Issue 20 of Sam Revival magazine is now out from Quazar. (Click here for pricing and to order…)

Sam Revival is a printed colour and b/w magazine with an accompanying cover disk of software and aims to be packed full of Sam Coupé news, interesting features, articles and interviews, catering for everything Sam related. The first issue launched in August 2002, and the magazine is now read by Sam users in 17 countries, including of course the UK and most European countries.

Inside the issue you’ll find all the regulars covering all the latest news in the SAM Coupe world, and there is the welcomed return of the letters pages. Feature articles include information on using the EEPROM that’s onboard the Trinity Ethernet Interface, with source code provided on the cover disk too. The developer diary looks at the work undertaken by Simon Owen on writing an Ethernet Driver for the Trinity and the start of his work on porting CPC/IP to give the SAM it’s first suite of internet enabled programs.

The issue also features three full games on the coverdisk, there is Booty and Invaders - two of Jupiter Software’s past commercial releases, and the third game is a SAM version of the The Light Corridor - originally writen 17 years ago by the Spanish programmers who did the MSX and ZX Spectrum versions, but the SAM publishing deal fell through so it was never released.

This issue of Sam Revival costs £3.99 for the UK, or £4.79 for EU including Airmail postage. You can also subscribe for six issues at a discounted price of £21.98 (UK) or £26.98 (EU). More information at the Quazar website at www.samcoupe.com

As announced as being in the prototype stage last month, I am now pleased to
announce that the Trinity Ethernet Interface is now available! The concept
of Trinity it to bring ethernet to your Sam with the goal of getting the Sam
onto the Internet. The interface consists of three main sections - hence the
name Trinity.

The first and most important part is the ethernet controller, a
self-contained chip to deal with the communication side of things. The
second section is a 128K EEPROM which is used for storing settings for the
ethernet configuration and for ethernet applications. (This was originally
just 8K as announced in the last Sam Revival, but having kicked the idea
about a bit with other people I upped it to 128K). The third section is a
card slot for MMC and SD flash memory cards to expand the memory of the
interface, as well as being another means of mass storage for your Sam
files. And all three peripherals are linked to the Sam via a
microcontroller.

I’ve got several Trinity interfaces ready built up in stock, and they are
priced at GBP 69.99 + postage.

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Megademo: Stupid Pointless Cool You could have spent all that time writing a game! Oooh, interesting, I wonder how they did that? Wow, I never knew my Sam could do that! Meh, that's not as good as Lyra III...